How select JPEG mode on Olympus OMD E-M1?
Dec 21, 2013 16:58:27 #
Psychoanalyzing my Olympus E-M1 and MYSELF as I try to understand how it works. This is just day one but was doing okay until I got to page 70 of the pdf manual.
Using the the "super control panel" on the camera screen I accessed the still image record modes....found RAW+JPEG (LF) but would also like to shoot in jpeg and set it as large, superfine (LSF) WITHOUT the raw file, too. I can't find the info on how to do that.
Would r-e-a-l-l-y appreciate help. This is going to bug the heck out of me until I find the answer.
Using the the "super control panel" on the camera screen I accessed the still image record modes....found RAW+JPEG (LF) but would also like to shoot in jpeg and set it as large, superfine (LSF) WITHOUT the raw file, too. I can't find the info on how to do that.
Would r-e-a-l-l-y appreciate help. This is going to bug the heck out of me until I find the answer.
Dec 21, 2013 17:25:26 #
lukan
Loc: Chicago, IL
Go to the menu; go to the gears (4th thing down) then use the button to go to subject K (jpeg, raw, jpeg+raw) record and erase. Select your jpeg there. Go up to G and make your selection there for L, SF.
Dec 21, 2013 23:11:00 #
Dec 22, 2013 00:09:05 #
Dec 22, 2013 06:05:54 #
elandel
Loc: Milan, Italy
This will be my next camera. Seems like the menu is 'crazy'?
Well I'm crazy too, so it should be ok. :mrgreen:
Well I'm crazy too, so it should be ok. :mrgreen:
Dec 22, 2013 06:13:37 #
sueyeisert
Loc: New Jersey
The Olympus menus are complicated.
elandel wrote:
This will be my next camera. Seems like the menu is 'crazy'?
Well I'm crazy too, so it should be ok. :mrgreen:
Well I'm crazy too, so it should be ok. :mrgreen:
Dec 22, 2013 06:19:01 #
elandel
Loc: Milan, Italy
sueyeisert wrote:
The Olympus menus are complicated.
I know because I have many Olympus cameras. Nothing like Nex menus: these are really complicated and non-sense
Dec 22, 2013 06:27:06 #
lukan
Loc: Chicago, IL
I think the menus on Oly cameras are very straight forward. They actually progress logically and give the user all kinds of customization options. Once you know where to find something (which is actually pretty easy) you'll know forever. It's a sophisticated camera with a lot of adjustable elements. This doesn't necessarily mean that everything requires customization or adjustment. It just means that it's there if you want it.
Dec 22, 2013 06:40:14 #
sueyeisert
Loc: New Jersey
I really had to study the menu on the other hand my Fugi X-E2 has a simple menu system.
lukan wrote:
I think the menus on Oly cameras are very straight forward. They actually progress logically and give the user all kinds of customization options. Once you know where to find something (which is actually pretty easy) you'll know forever. It's a sophisticated camera with a lot of adjustable elements. This doesn't necessarily mean that everything requires customization or adjustment. It just means that it's there if you want it.
Dec 22, 2013 06:51:22 #
Olympus menus are very complicated when you first open the box, but step by step they soon become very easy to use. I tend to use "live view" mostly.
My new Canons menu is even more complicated, but now I have played with it for a couple of weeks it also has become very easy to use.
My new Canons menu is even more complicated, but now I have played with it for a couple of weeks it also has become very easy to use.
Dec 22, 2013 12:47:49 #
Lukan,
Well I followed your instructions, but once into the menu abyss things didn't show up in the order you stated. But with this camera I suppose there are numerous ways to wander the maze.
I did find K but nothing there showing jpeg, raw, jpeg+raw. You mentioned "record and erase" but nothing there that I dared to touch. Went to G but found nothing there.
There are so many settings options that if you accidentally push the button on a setting just thinking it will take you to another window you could discombobulate everything and have to reset to factory default and start all over again. So frustrating!!
I'm sure this is a wonderful camera as far as photo quality goes but the menu abyss which YOU MUST TACKLE is almost too much to deal with.
Well I followed your instructions, but once into the menu abyss things didn't show up in the order you stated. But with this camera I suppose there are numerous ways to wander the maze.
I did find K but nothing there showing jpeg, raw, jpeg+raw. You mentioned "record and erase" but nothing there that I dared to touch. Went to G but found nothing there.
There are so many settings options that if you accidentally push the button on a setting just thinking it will take you to another window you could discombobulate everything and have to reset to factory default and start all over again. So frustrating!!
I'm sure this is a wonderful camera as far as photo quality goes but the menu abyss which YOU MUST TACKLE is almost too much to deal with.
Dec 22, 2013 12:49:52 #
johneccles
You have to be kidding me. Canon more complicated than this Olympus E-m1. O-M-G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to be kidding me. Canon more complicated than this Olympus E-m1. O-M-G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 22, 2013 12:59:10 #
sueyeisert
I'm the type of person who always believed in playing with things first before using the manual. A very dangerous route to go with this camera. First thing to learn is where to find the factory reset so if you screw things up which is easy to do, you can reset everything and start over.
I am determined to figure out this Olympus. As I gain headway I am putting my own manual together so I know what is necessary to know in human language and have a resource that is easy to follow when I forget where things are.
I can't remember the name of the person who wrote a book on the E-M5.....it's on Amazon....but the book on the E-M1 has not been published yet but he apparently he is working on it. Amazon has it listed but nothing to sell yet.
I'm the type of person who always believed in playing with things first before using the manual. A very dangerous route to go with this camera. First thing to learn is where to find the factory reset so if you screw things up which is easy to do, you can reset everything and start over.
I am determined to figure out this Olympus. As I gain headway I am putting my own manual together so I know what is necessary to know in human language and have a resource that is easy to follow when I forget where things are.
I can't remember the name of the person who wrote a book on the E-M5.....it's on Amazon....but the book on the E-M1 has not been published yet but he apparently he is working on it. Amazon has it listed but nothing to sell yet.
Dec 22, 2013 13:33:44 #
sueyeisert
Loc: New Jersey
FYI - The book on the E-M5 by Busch?? left a lot to be desired. It didn't cover how to do a CWB and had wrong info. I felt he pushed out a book just to sell. I needed a book on the camera not photography or processing. I got better info on dpreview.
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Dec 22, 2013 14:30:17 #
mossgate wrote:
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It seems, I may have already posted this to one of your posts????
Check with Andrzej Wrotniak web site:
I've been shooting Olympus since 1972, and digital DSLR since the E-1 and Evolt E300. Many models since then, and right up to my current E-PL5.
Wrotniak has been a gold mine of information, and he seems more inclined toward how the camera's work. He presumes you know how to take pictures and how to post process for the most part.
I know he's put up a lot of information (pages) about the EM1, and based on his thoroughness and apparent loyalty to Olympus, feel you will find good information here:
http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/m43/em1-look.html
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